Story: When a steel mill closes down in Buffalo, it affects not only the livelihoods of several men but also their self-respect and sense of identity. As they struggle with unemployment, they also chafe at the success enjoyed by the Chippendales’ type of male strippers at a local club patron…

Story: In 2006 a local milkman walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He ordered the teacher and male students to leave, then barricaded himself and 10 girl students in a room, where he systematically shot each of them in the head before killing himself.

Story: Sarah Daniel is Dean of Students at Belmont, a small, liberal arts college in Vermont. She’s recently moved there from Pennsylvania and doesn’t know too many people. She’s started a relationship with Ross Collins, a professor at Belmont, and is upset when he tells her that his former …

Story: The coveted but cursed Ring, forged by the Nibelungen dwarf Alberich out of gold he had stolen from the Rhinemaidens, has come into the hands of the warrior Siegfried. He gives it to Brunnhilde, daughter of the god Wotan, as a symbol of his love for her.

Story: A traveling theatrical troupe makes a stop in Mule Shoe, Texas, an outpost for trickery and shenanigans in the wild West of the 19th century. A member of the troupe, intrepid thespian Harry Thunder, has avoided seeing his dear old dad, Colonel Thunder of the Seventh Cavalry, since you…

Story: A wealthy couple attempts to escape London during the devastating plague of the 17th century when their home is invaded by a sailor and a young girl desperate to get off the streets. The arrival of the intruders results in an automatic, 28-day quarantine of the Snelgrave residence by …

Story: Based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs, Oklahoma! tells a tale of romance in the Oklahoma Territory in 1906 as its residents look forward to imminently joining the United States. Outside the town of Claremore, a cowboy named Curly McLain visits the farmhouse of communit…

Story: A young woman named Arabella takes a transcendent journey through the mythical land of Samaren, where she meets all manner of creatures, including a scheming enchantress and her two devious daughters; the benevolent ruler of the kingdom, who yearns for his young adult son to give up h…

Story: The Duke of Mantua has a reputation for bedding down as many women as he can in his hedonistic pursuits. While describing to his retainer Borsa the latest woman to catch his fancy -- a young lady he’s seen only in church -- he spies the Countess Ceprano at a party and immediately desi…